[CIG-SHORT] Uniform time-stepping for long runs on viscoelastic domain (Brad Aagaard)

[Brad Aagaard]

Michal,

Thanks for determining that your problem was related to 
nondimensionalization. What is the minimum relaxation time in your problem?

I would like to reproduce your hang so that we can generate an 
appropriate error message, in addition to the more general trapping of 
nondimensionalization problems Matt suggested.

Thanks,
Brad


On 06/07/2015 11:23 PM, Michal Dichter wrote:
>
> Dear Brad,
>
>
> Please disregard my last response. It seems that the cause of the
> problem that I have been describing has been with the
> nondimensionalization of time. (I stumbled upon a PyLith FAQ sort-of
> page where the importance of nondimensionalization was emphasized.) I
> changed my "relaxation_time" parameter to be equal to dt rather than
> to the minimum relaxation time. This enabled my code to run to
> completion and output the expected number of files. Thank you again
> for your help in this matter.
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Michal
>
>
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> University of New Mexico (860) 459-0956
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